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John Piper Quotes | Quotes said by John Piper

  • John Piper Quote #1

    . . . the only legitimate reason that kingship is not attractive to us is because in this age and this world the only kings available are finite and sinful. Listen to C. S. Lewis describe why he believes in democracy:

    A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on those grounds is that they’re not true. . . I find that they’re not true without looking further than myself. I don’t deserve a share in governing a hen-roost, much less a nation. . . . The real reason for democracy is . . . Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his fellows. Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.1

    If there could be a king who is not limited in his wisdom and power and goodness and love for his subjects, then monarchy would be the best of all governments. If such a ruler could ever rise in the world—with no weakness, no folly, no sin—then no wise and humble person would ever want democracy again.

    The question is not whether God broke into the universe as a king. He did. The question is: What kind of king is he? What difference would his kingship make for you?

  • John Piper Quote #2

    ... the mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

  • John Piper Quote #3

    ...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

  • John Piper Quote #4

    ...for poets, at least, experiencing something inexpressible does not mean silence. It's precisely the inexpressible something that poetry is meant to help us see or feel. If it were merely expressible - if there were nothing ineffable about it - there would be no need for a poem. But everywhere in the Bible we meet reality that exceeds our expectations.

  • John Piper Quote #5

    ...the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

  • John Piper Quote #6

    ...we should all fortify ourselves against the dark hours of depression by cultivating a deep distrust of the certainties of despair. Despair is relentless in the certainties of its pessimism. But we have seen again and again, from our own experience and others', that absolute statements of hopelessness that we make in the dark are notoriously unreliable. Our dark certainties are not sureties.

  • John Piper Quote #7

    A prayerless Christian is like a bus driver trying alone to push his bus out of a rut because he doesn't know Clark Kent is on board.

  • John Piper Quote #8

    Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.

  • John Piper Quote #9

    All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.

  • John Piper Quote #10

    America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

  • John Piper Quote #11

    An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

  • John Piper Quote #12

    As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning.

  • John Piper Quote #13

    Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.

  • John Piper Quote #14

    Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

  • John Piper Quote #15

    But to enjoy him we must know him. Seeing is savoring. If he remains a blurry, vague fog, we may be intrigued for a season. But we will not be stunned with joy, as when the fog clears and you find yourself on the brink of some vast precipice.

  • John Piper Quote #16

    But we also need stories. Great stories.

  • John Piper Quote #17

    But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

  • John Piper Quote #18

    By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.

  • John Piper Quote #19

    Christmas cut history in two ages, the Age of Promise, and the Age of Fulfillment.

  • John Piper Quote #20

    Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its
    intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

  • John Piper Quote #21

    Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

  • John Piper Quote #22

    Desire for and delight in God's Word are inseparable.

  • John Piper Quote #23

    Desire that your life count for something great! Long for your life to have eternal significance. Want this! Don’t coast through life without a passion.

  • John Piper Quote #24

    Does not the Old Testament promise that God will prosper His people? Indeed! God increases our yield so that by giving we can prove that our yield is not our god. God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that thousands of unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel.

  • John Piper Quote #25

    DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

  • John Piper Quote #26

    Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

  • John Piper Quote #27

    Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

  • John Piper Quote #28

    Don't make peace with the sin in your life.

  • John Piper Quote #29

    Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith.

  • John Piper Quote #30

    Faith is born and sustained by the Word of God, and out of faith grows the flower of joy.

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